Eighteenth-century thing theory in a global context :: from consumerism to celebrity culture /

Exploring Enlightenment attitudes toward things and their relation to human subjects, this collection offers a geographically wide-ranging perspective on what the eighteenth century looked like beyond British or British-colonial borders. In highlighting trends, fashions, and cultural imports of trul...

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Weitere Verfasser: Baird, Ileana Popa (HerausgeberIn), Ionescu, Christina (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Farnham, Surrey, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2014.
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Zusammenfassung:Exploring Enlightenment attitudes toward things and their relation to human subjects, this collection offers a geographically wide-ranging perspective on what the eighteenth century looked like beyond British or British-colonial borders. In highlighting trends, fashions, and cultural imports of truly global significance, the contributors celebrate the logic of serendipity that transforms the object into some-thing else when it is placed in a new locale.
Beschreibung:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781472413307
147241330X

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